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Re: Gothcas of changing the IP Address of an Authoritative DNS Server
From: bmanning () vacation karoshi com
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:52:07 +0000
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:02:56AM -0500, Joe Abley wrote:
On 13-Dec-2005, at 16:28, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:In message <9828b780512131312q220a5ea6x97a6167e33c654a0 () mail gmail com>, Sam Cr ooks writes:I would think you would want to drop your DNS record TTLs for all domains being moved to something very low several days before the switch-over period.More precisely, you want to change the TTL on the NS records, which are in the parent zone. If you're keeping the name but changing the address, worry about the A records, too.You also want to check all the registries which are superordinate to zones your server is authoritative for, and check that any IP addresses stored in those registries for your nameserver are updated, otherwise you will experience either immediate or future glue madness. A conservative approach to this kind of transition is to arrange for your nameserver (or different nameservers hosting the same data) to respond on both the old and new addresses, and to continue in that mode until you see no queries directed at the old address for some safe-seeming interval (bearing in mind TTLs and cached records, alluded to by Steven and Sam).
currently in the middle of such a safe, conservative transition leads me to believe that there will -NEVER- be a point w/ there are no queries to the old address. (he says, 24 months into a transition...) The right tactic is to make the change, based on 2x the TTL of the SOA. --bill
Joe
Current thread:
- Gothcas of changing the IP Address of an Authoritative DNS Server Eric Kagan (Dec 13)
- Re: Gothcas of changing the IP Address of an Authoritative DNS Server Sam Crooks (Dec 13)
- Re: Gothcas of changing the IP Address of an Authoritative DNS Server Steven M. Bellovin (Dec 13)
- Re: Gothcas of changing the IP Address of an Authoritative DNS Server Joe Abley (Dec 14)
- Re: Gothcas of changing the IP Address of an Authoritative DNS Server Joe Maimon (Dec 14)
- Re: Gothcas of changing the IP Address of an Authoritative DNS Server Joe Abley (Dec 14)
- Re: Gothcas of changing the IP Address of an Authoritative DNS Server David W. Hankins (Dec 14)
- Re: Gothcas of changing the IP Address of an Authoritative DNS Server Steven M. Bellovin (Dec 13)
- Re: Gothcas of changing the IP Address of an Authoritative DNS Server Jason Lixfeld (Dec 14)
- Re: Gothcas of changing the IP Address of an Authoritative DNS Server bmanning (Dec 14)
- Re: Gothcas of changing the IP Address of an Authoritative DNS Server Joe Abley (Dec 14)
- Re: Gothcas of changing the IP Address of an Authoritative DNS Server Sam Crooks (Dec 13)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Gothcas of changing the IP Address of an Authoritative DNS Server Hannigan, Martin (Dec 14)
- RE: Gothcas of changing the IP Address of an Authoritative DNS Server Gregory Hicks (Dec 14)